Court Quote by Rand Paul

The advent of DNA testing, and the number of convictions thrown out, has confirmed that we've put LOTS of innocent people to death. There…

— Gene Weingarten

It has become increasingly difficult for states or the federal government to apply the death penalty. But why even try? Nothing is accomplished, and…

— Richard Cohen

It's a phony issue. To pretend the death penalty is going to end crime in the United States is to fool people, to promote…

— Rudy Giuliani

I'm totally against the death penalty - which, if anyone has a right to support, I do - because I do not see it…

— Martin Luther King III

I support the death penalty. I think that it has to be administered not only fairly, with attention to things like DNA evidence, which…

— Al Gore

There is a growing recognition that the death penalty simply can't work. It's a complex system that arbitrarily selects defendants for death and creates…

— Robert Cecil Martin

Those who support the death penalty are accepting a practice that is both ineffective and fundamentally flawed.

— Clint Smith

I wonder if these death penalty proponents would still hold that it's worth some risk of error if it were their loved one who…

— Antoinette Bosco

If one of our fellow citizens can be executed with so much doubt surrounding his guilt, then the death penalty system in our country…

— Jimmy Carter

The issue is not whether there are horrible cases where the penalty seems "right". The real question is whether we will ever design a…

— Scott Turow

With the advent of DNA, we know that people have been convicted and sentenced to death who later proved not to be guilty of…

— Kamala Harris

The death penalty in the U.S. has become a political tool - and it should never be that.

— Lennie James